Friday 9 May 2014

The Absolute Weirdness Of Miranda

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Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five major moons. It was discovered by Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper on February 16, 1948 at McDonald Observatory.

Miranda looks like it's been Frankensteined together. The small, lumpy moon has a surface covered by patches of intersecting ridges, weirdly bumpy terrain and pockmarked plains, and dark, irregular canyons.

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